(With a newfound bravado, Clarence Thomas has been slandering his countless critics. In a recent speech at a convention of the National Bar Association, Clarence stated: “Isn’t it time to move on?...Isn’t it time to realize that being angry with me solves no problem?...” This shockingly brazen query prompted this column. Enjoy...)

Clarence:

It is no surprise that you remain in denial...

FYI:

We do not hate you because of your opinions. We hate you because you have the power to wield your twisted opinions as weapons of oppression upon millions of us. We hate you for your brutal legal actions. We see you as a star player on a deadly neocon team.

You have the right to your opinions. But you have no right to expect us to accept your abuses in silence. You have disgraced the afrocentric and  liberal legacy of Thurgood Marshall. You have reversed women’s workplace rights by decades. You have increased the torture of prisoners. You have murdered affirmative action.

We do not object to your “vision”. We simply see that you have none. You are blinded by your role as poster boy for racist neocons like your mentor and master George Bush. Because your vision is dictated by those who control you, you see yourself as they do. We see you as you actually are.

We look at you and we see a man who attended Yale via affirmative action in admissions policies. We look at you and we see a horridly inept administrator who destroyed the EEOC. We see an incompetent and inexperienced attorney who was proven to be unqualified for any seat on the Supreme Court.We see a lewd sexual harasser of black women exclusively.  We see that you lied about Anita Hill. Yet, we see that you respect white women enough to wed one.

We see that you slandered your working poor sister as a “welfare queen”. We see that you neglected the female elder kin, whom she quit working to care for, while you chased white coeds at Yale. We see a man who is an intimate friend of Rush Limbaugh.  We look at you and we see a Supreme Nigger and a legendary neocon slave.

No one who studies your professional record can deny that you deserve to be hated. I have attached some research to this letter for those who remain arrogant about their ignorance of your antics, and thus empathetic to your whining.  Traitors and tyrants are always hated. In fact, they are hated most by those who dictate their demonic roles. Secretly, you are disrespected by your puppeteers even more than you are resented by those whom you so flagrantly betray.

This letter is written to detail the clarity in our condemnation. Your opinions are the least of our concerns. Your individual actions continue to lead to our collective demise. We fear your toxic spirit and your lethal pen. How dare you ask us to "move on" as you persist in your massive attacks from your loathsome loft!!! For the record, we will move on only when you and your neocon peers have done the same.

Sincerely,

Alicia Banks

The following quotes are taken from the November 1993 issue of EMERGE magazine. They were published in an article entitled “Doubting Thomas” by Trevor Coleman:

"In five major cases involving civil rights and liberties during his two years on the bench, Thomas has voted against minorities every time.

HUDSON v. MCMILLAN: The Supreme Court held 7 to 2 that the severe beating by Louisiana prison guards, of an inmate who was hog tied on the floor, amounted to a violation of the 8th Amendment (against cruel and unusual punishment). Thomas and Scalia dissented...

ST MARY’S HONOR CENTER v. HICKS: The high court held 5 to 4 that in job bias suits where an employer lies to defend against a bias claim, the employee is not automatically entitled to a ruling in his favor. Thomas was the deciding vote. 

SHAW v. RENO: The 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling will allow white voters in North Carolina to object to racially motivated redistricting...The decision severely undercuts the Voting Rights Act...

From the time he was chair of the EEOC, I always considered Clarence Thomas to be the worst kind of racist...a black man who hates himself...he has politically established networks with some of the biggest white racists in the country, and helped to develop a political machine that stifled some of the social, economic, and  political progress of blacks as a whole.

That record makes Thomas what a New York Times editorial called the “cruelest” justice on the court.

His votes on the Reno vs. Shaw, St. Mary’s Honor Center, and Hudson cases were giveaways. They lacked humanity. Civil rights is a life or death issue for people of color."

The following quotes are taken from the November 1996 issue of EMERGE magazine. They were published in an article entitled “Supreme Insult” by George Curry and Trevor Coleman.

“EDITOR’S NOTE (by George Curry):

I apologize. Exactly three years ago, we ran a cover illustration of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, resplendent with an Aunt Jemima-like handkerchief on his head. In retrospect, we were far too benevolent. Hence, this month’s cover with Clarence appropriately attired as a lawn jockey.  Even our latest depiction is too compassionate for a person who has done so much to turn back the clock on civil rights...During slavery, the lawn jockeys on plantations were used to  let other owners know when a slave had escaped. According to slave narrative, a lantern would be placed in the jockey’s hand and would remain there as long as the escaped slave remained free. Now you know why there’s a lantern in Clarence’s hand on our cover. That’s Clarence Thomas--he’ll leave a light on for you.

PRESLEY v. ETOWAH COUNTY: Voted to remove the budgetary power of the first Black commissioner to be elected since Reconstruction.

PODBERESKY v. KIRWAN: Voted to let stand an appellate court ruling in favor of a University of Maryland student who identified himself as white and Hispanic and who sued the university because he was not eligible for Banneker Scholarships used to attract high-achieving African-Americans.

WISCONSIN v. CITY OF NEW YORK: Voted not to require the government to adjust the 1990 Census to account for about 4.8% of Blacks and 5.2% of Hispanics believed to have been missed in enumeration.

SHAW v. HUNT & BUSH v. VERA: Voted to declare unconstitutional five congressional districts in Texas and North Carolina which were drawn to maximize Black and Hispanic political clout..

ARNAND v. PEÑA: Voted to limit affirmative action set aside programs aimed at helping minority businesses gain a larger share of federal contracts.

Thomas’s voting record has been extremely conservative, even on a conservative court...

Thomas’s opinions have earned him lavish praise from white conservatives such as talk show host Rush Limbaugh who was married in Thomas’s Virginia home.

Thomas has supported court decisions against Black congressional districts, urban schoolchildren, death row inmates, minority contractors, and affirmative action. Many of the key civil rights cases were decided by a 5-4 vote...

Perhaps the most scorching criticism of Thomas is that he is a hypocrite on affirmative action...In a 1993 speech before the EEOC, Thomas credited affirmative action policies with helping to lift him out of poverty, "But for them, God only knows where I would be today."

At Thomas’s confirmation hearings, officials from Yale University testified that he had been admitted to law school under an affirmative action program aimed at attaining 10% minority enrollment.

Thomas suffers from a level of racial self-hatred which is clinically observable.

Most people know that whites who are prone to think Blacks are inferior don’t need affirmative action as an excuse to do it.

Now that affirmative action is no longer required, it has gone back to the good old boy network.

Yet, after advancing his own career by conjuring up the ugly image of lynching, Thomas feigns ignorance about the daily indignities African-Americans suffer in the United States.

It is Thomas’s lack of historical perspective...that allows him to act so callously toward African-Americans.

True affirmative action requires selecting from a pool of qualified applicants, irrespective of race, gender, religion or national origin. It is more accurate to say that Thomas was picked as a token. How else does one explain appointing a Supreme Court Justice who had little or no experience as a defense attorney, prosecutor, or law professor? Thomas had been in the U. S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. less than two years before being elevated to the high court by President Bush.

Some of the people now criticizing Thomas the loudest, are the same ones who quietly favored his nomination because he is Black...Joseph Lowery was wrong and he wasn’t alone. We need to raise questions of people like poet Maya Angelou, former chair of the NAACP Margaret Bush Wilson,  and Lincoln University (PA) President Niara Sudarkasa who supported Thomas’s appointment... They owe black people--in fact all of America--an apology.

As Thomas sits on the Supreme Court, he remains one of America’s most horrifying nightmares..."

Research more of the horrid truths about Clarence Thomas in the following books:

Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas by Kevin Merida & Michael A. Fletcher

Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas   by Jane Mayer

Raceing Justice, Engendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality        edited by Toni Morrison 

Speaking Truth to Power    by Anita Hill

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